Are you certain it's not guide rail bushings? That's what caused a very similar-sounding noise in a Chinese Falcone I attended to today. I originally thought the tray felt, too... manually lifting the tray (eliminating pedal-thru-pitman) and still resulted in noise. Lifted as many dampers as possible at the spoons and it was still there, so bingo! Just a thought... Paul Bruesch Stillwater, MN On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Ken & Pat Gerler <kenneth.gerler at prodigy.net > wrote: > Hello all, > I already ran this by Mark Wisner and he has never had a complaint like > this -- It is RX-2G (5'10") grand. And if everything is quiet, slowly > pushing down on the damper pedal, it sounds like you are slowly running a > brush across the top of a snare drum. I have isolated it to the junction > between the under lever "capstan" screw and the damper lift tray felt. The > sound is not there if the damper are held up with the sustenuto pedal. > > I put "Protek" on the felt - no change; I put teflon powder on the felt - > no change. Mark and I discussed using a leather burnisher on the head on > the capstan screws (but I didn't have that with me try). > > Anyone else ever run into this? In 40 years, it is the first time (that I > can remember) I have ever run into it. I have had the problem between the > key capstan and the whippen felt and been able to resolve it with the above > products. > > Thanks in advance, > > Ken Gerler > kenneth.gerler at prodigy.net > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100303/dde04675/attachment.htm>
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